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  • A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
  • Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
  • Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  • Every man is his own hell.
  • Historian – An unsuccessful novelist.
  • Misogynist – A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
  • Optimist – The sort of man who marries his sister’s best friend.
  • Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
  • The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
  • The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
  • The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity.  It ended, again like the Salvation Army began, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
  • Wealth – Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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  • Der Tag 2024

    September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathederal St 10:30 AM Annual Meeting of The Mencken Society. Speakers: Fred Hobson by way of remote conferencing and a discussion between John Barr, professor of history at Lone Star College, and Darryl Hart. 2:00 PM The 2024 Mencken Memorial Lecture will be presented by Thomas…

    August 17, 2024
    Events
  • The Free Lance 282, June 6, 1912

    The Free Lance, June 6, 1912.

    June 6, 2016
    Feature, Free Lance
  • The Free Lance 281, June 5, 1912

    The Free Lance, June 5, 1912.

    June 5, 2016
    Feature, Free Lance
  • The Free Lance 280, June 4, 1912

    The Free Lance, June 4, 1912.

    June 4, 2016
    Feature, Free Lance
  • The Free Lance 279, June 3, 1912

    The Free Lance, June 3, 1912.

    June 3, 2016
    Feature, Free Lance
  • Mr Mencken Away On Vacation

    In mid-April 1912, Mr Mencken and his friend Alexander Hopkins McDannald sailed from New York to Bremen aboard the Kronprinz Wilhelm for a visit to several cities in Germany (Munich, Heidelberg) and London, England. Mr Mencken let readers know he was going away in his Free Lance column of April 17, 1912 (he had long…

    April 18, 2016
    Feature
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